Open Kochise opened 1 year ago
Hi Kochise,
Thank you for your enthusiasm in this project but I don't see how that repository helps with the compilation toolchain. I tried to examine the code and scripts and so far was only able to determine the following:
It's this last item that concerns me. We're basically given a black-box VM image of unknown origins to run that we can't even build ourselves. It could have a malicious payload and nobody would know without careful analysis.
So, unfortunately, I don't see that repository contributing much to the project and I think better vetting of what they provide would be prudent prior to any widespread distribution.
It was brought to my attention that the instructions to "reproduce" the image can be found here:
However, this requires the pre-built 3.1.0 image hosted on the minix3.org site. Unfortunately, this does not help with actually building the image from source.
Up-to-date toolchain to compile Minix : https://github.com/o-oconnell/minixfromscratch